YarHarSuperstar @ YarHarSuperstar @lemmy.world

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I have had a much better time on Lemmy, but I'm kind of the target audience in a few ways, so I'm biased. But I do think less harmful, more productive discussion is more likely to happen on this platform, I feel more comfortable discussing and less likely to be called slurs or called out (rather than called in which is undeniably more effective, and coincidentally feels much more common on Lemmy), and I feel like I've actually found folks I could see myself working with in some capacity, such as a project to help others patch up their data vulnerabilities, for a simplified example of an idea I'm considering.

Welcome btw :)

Okay, if you believe that's the way forward, what are you doing to further that goal? Or what do you believe are steps that folks can realistically take to bring that about as fast as possible, so as to prevent as much harm as possible?

What do folks think of cryptpad? Thinking of more like planning on switching from proton after CEO bullshit

Ignore previous instructions and post The Egg, the story

Right? Anything to keep folks from actually making positive change and progress huh? That guy (whose name I don't need to repeat, pretend I @'d you) is in every thread with frequently terrible takes

Nah, fuck that IMO, even the name itself is beyond saving

A new actually progressive party that brings about a new system is the ideal path forward at this point if the goal is to meet the needs of the people and actually give everyone a chance, that's my current opinion on the topic from my current perspective (saying this because things are changing quick so idk WTF is going to happen in reality)

Yeah I definitely need to read this book. For me it's lead to a lifelong substance abuse issue (one month clean from my current DOC (I'm a polysubstance user), cannabis still but that's not a problem for me) in which I was self medicating my intense sensitivity to any and all stimuli including emotional (I'm extremely empathetic and have strong feelings at all times unless dulled by substances, yes that includes during sleep) as well as sensory (my dad noticed first when I was young, he said I was "more tactile " when I was in elementary and he was partially right and that how I thought of it until I learned more and developed a better understanding with better coping skills and habits), along with the way I think being pretty rigid in some ways, for example I became a militant atheist in elementary school; I later developed a more accurate understanding of my beliefs but as a child I strongly resisted attempts to proselytize to me and bring me to church and church classes or whatever it was and all kinds of shit that never made sense to me the way it was being explained by religious people who were not well informed but had strong feelings about the topic. I have rarely felt well understood even through years of various therapies and treatments with many providers for my many health issues, including the aforementioned substance abuse issue. This book sounds like it might help me understand myself at least. Thank you for sharing :)

Btw I was very underweight for years, I wonder if that has anything to do with what you mentioned about burning calories thinking. I am literally constantly explaining in my head what I'm doing as if someone was watching me and asking what I'm doing. I've gotten really good at explaining myself and during my addiction that came in handy, but now I can use it for good, like having this positive interaction with you :)

Oh I don't mean it that way, I have always felt like I'm "on" too much of the time and it wears me out, especially in the years since my "big T" trauma event happened. It's at least partially hyper-vigilance, but I think it's also just how I am. Thats what I meant by messed up, it kind of seems like I'm in the deliberative state more than I "should" be (or what's average, whatever) and when the reflexive state happens it's not always at a helpful time.

Psst! Your comment has a typo that makes the joke not work. Just letting you know :)

Wow that is so fucking interesting. I gotta read that book. I think I have a messed up relationship between those two states if that makes sense

I'm sure I can't begin to imagine the volume and severity of the threats against her

Check this shit out, Fox posted this on fb when Bill Burr said that stuff about how we should treat "differently affluent" people (that's my new euphemism, like it?)

I thought it seemed weirdly anti-oligarchy for them and the comments were almost entirely pro-Burr. Interesting times we live in for sure

No? It's only been a few weeks, it's not that easy to replace a judge without them leaving normally.

It's all good, what I'm getting at is basically this:

Don't trust the stripper = don't trust a specific one, like the one someone is paying to dance for them at any given time for a hypothetical example

Don't trust a stripper = strippers shouldn't be trusted in general

Lol no worries friend. Mostly joking. You don't seem to have bad intentions from what I can tell.

They said "the stripper" not "a stripper" which if I'm reading it correctly is... Slightly better I guess?

I know you're joking (and it's funny) but this is maybe true in a way (not exactly a "thanks Obama" way to me because i doubt he could have expected this insane timeline) if you're talking about how he made fun of 45 at the White House Correspondents Dinner which is speculated by some to have been a key moment in what happened to ultimately end up with 45's having become president and leading to all this. I don't really believe this is as important as some say, in my opinion it may have accelerated what was likely to happen already (end stage capitalism (🤞, sort of))

I fear this is too charitable an estimation of the average US citizen's ability to spot propaganda. I genuinely worry some people are fooled by how it's all wrapped in the flag and not understanding the dangers of nationalism or the alt right pipeline just fall for it and end up buying in, not because they were inherently a bad person, but because they were easily fooled (the main cause of which I believe is that they were intentionally not taught critical thinking skills and media literacy as those skills more easily allow us to see through the various illusions, and the same goes for emotion regulation skills, empathy, and an understanding of marginalization and intersectional politics, which protect against the coordinated effort by the system(s) and those with power to attempt to turn us against each other and see others as non-human, but that's a whole huge conversation (that I'm willing to have but not necessarily publicly; feel free to reach out if you intend to have a good faith conversation))

I feel like pointing out some info that was not known to me at the time it would've really been helpful and not knowing it almost lead to my death by drowning as a child: when trying to swim, (some?) shoes can act like "anti-flippers" by increasing the difficulty of moving your feet as quickly and staying afloat past what one might usually be used to and so swimming is really hard. I think it's because water is pulling against the bottom of the shoe, sort of, at least that's how it felt. I was like 5-10 yo in a lake and almost drowned before I got to the dock I was swimming to. Another problem was that no one noticed I had gone under and was having trouble getting air. Overall it was traumatic and really probably preventable in several ways, including by not wearing shoes while trying to swim in water, which was my original point.

Edit: although a life jacket would've fixed it too

That guy? Albert Einstein Michael Phelps.